Speaker 1: Time for tag it out. We got a sponsor for
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be out there starting at six. The entire
Speaker 1: event starts at four o'clock on Saturday in Tavaries, right
Speaker 1: there on Ruby Street. Two stages of live music, vendors,
Speaker 1: local food, food trucks. These are so much going on there.
Speaker 1: Obviously drinks, but again, admission is free. Gates are at
Speaker 1: four pm. They're suggesting that you bring out a blanket
Speaker 1: or a or a chair to spread out and enjoy
Speaker 1: the evening. All right, what's the latest on the TikTok situation?
Speaker 1: Who can even keep trying to You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people, one hundred and seventy million people in this
Speaker 1: country use the app, so they're curious sys to what
Speaker 1: the endgame is here. You bought seventy five days of
Speaker 1: time to sort out and comply with the new law.
Speaker 1: All right, the new law has to be complied with.
Speaker 1: We got that one in seventy five days. It has
Speaker 1: to have a non Chinese entity operating the US TikTok situation.
Speaker 1: A board member a TikTok's parent company said that a
Speaker 1: deal to save the app from disappearing in the US
Speaker 1: will be done soon. That would be General Atlantic CEO
Speaker 1: Bill Ford, a Byte Dance board member. He said yesterday
Speaker 1: that it's quote in everyone's interest to keep the app alive.
Speaker 1: Ford made the remarks in a big hoity toity deal
Speaker 1: in Davos, Switzerland. He says we'll get on with it
Speaker 1: as soon as maybe the end of the week. In
Speaker 1: terms of negotiating what might work, the Chinese government, the
Speaker 1: US government, and the company and the board will all
Speaker 1: have to be involved in this conversation. He said that
Speaker 1: there could be solutions short of divestiture, and says everything's
Speaker 1: moving in that direction, so just have a little bit
Speaker 1: of patience. Hopefully they'll be able to become compliant and
Speaker 1: you can continue using the app without fear of it
Speaker 1: going away. In the meantime, it's uh, last check, it's
Speaker 1: still not available in the US app stores. That is now.
Speaker 1: Of course, you spot a need and you fill it.
Speaker 1: You got an extra iPhone with TikTok loaded on it. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what people are putting them on eBay now, apparently
Speaker 1: having some success selling them for thousands of dollars to
Speaker 1: people desperate to have an iPhone with TikTok app installed.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I think I might for when the boss
Speaker 1: was getting us ticking and talking, Remember right, put that
Speaker 1: some bitch up on eBay and get cash in while
Speaker 1: you can't talk of This may be your final, your
Speaker 1: your absolute choice, chance to finally upgrade your phone. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if they're gonna mind the smashed screen. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's the screen or the screen cover, but
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to peel it off and see. Maybe everyone
Speaker 1: won't get thousands o hundreds. Yes, I mentioned this yesterday,
Speaker 1: but since this is this tech segment, I'll bring it
Speaker 1: up again in case you missed the news. Netflix is
Speaker 1: raising their prices again. Every plan will be going up,
Speaker 1: from the cheapest AD supported plan to the top tier plan. Yes,
Speaker 1: the increase will be different depending on what you have
Speaker 1: right now, but just know they're all going up. Not
Speaker 1: an actual date on when this is happening, just know
Speaker 1: it's coming. If you have Netflix and all oft Wait
Speaker 1: a second, why am I all of a sudden paying
Speaker 1: this that's what's going on. It's not like massive amounts
Speaker 1: or anything. Yes, some of them are one dollars summer too. Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1: Then there's one that's two fifty going up. Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty five event yesterday, Samsung unveiling the new line
Speaker 1: of S twenty five phones that will be rolling out
Speaker 1: in the Galaxy series. The smartphone's got a new snap dragging,
Speaker 1: Elite eight ch chipset and better, Galaxy Ai integrated into
Speaker 1: the operating system. What's the dates on this? You can
Speaker 1: pre order them now, I believe, and they officially go
Speaker 1: on tail February seventh. Right, you're a Android Galaxy fan
Speaker 1: in upgrade to the newest ones. It'll be coming out
Speaker 1: all right, This is February seventh, I believe, is when
Speaker 1: they'll be available. Okay, yes, yes, the TikTok iPhone in
Speaker 1: my hand is going to be available for sale in
Speaker 1: two days. I have to strip some other bank apps
Speaker 1: and such. Gotcha? Gotcha? Well, an interesting situation has developed.
Speaker 1: This is almost a he said, she said tech bro
Speaker 1: back and forth. The big announcement that was made about
Speaker 1: this joint venture between open Ai, soft Bank and Oracle,
Speaker 1: ultimately investing five hundred billion dollars in a giant AI
Speaker 1: project here in the United States. They've already started this.
Speaker 1: It's going to be based out of Texas. But after
Speaker 1: shortly after it was announced, here comes Elon Musk getting
Speaker 1: on social and saying that this is all a sham
Speaker 1: and that they don't have the money. Now with Elon,
Speaker 1: you kind of have to take things with a grain
Speaker 1: of Obviously he knows money, he's plugged into this community here,
Speaker 1: but at the same time you have to know that
Speaker 1: him and Sam Altman hate each other's guts, and Sam
Speaker 1: is part of the three companies that are have made
Speaker 1: this announcement. So the truth is probably somewhere in between.
Speaker 1: My guess is the project obviously has started, so they've
Speaker 1: got money to invest. Maybe they don't have the five
Speaker 1: hundred billion yet. Is that perhaps what he's referring to.
Speaker 1: I don't We'll see, I don't know. To be continued.
Speaker 1: Hot rumor is hundreds of layoffs will be hitting CNN today.
Speaker 1: Most of this behind the scenes, folks, is that news
Speaker 1: network continues to lag far behind several of its competitors,
Speaker 1: and now that they're past the election even less. Eyeball
Speaker 1: is probably going to be on network. So you hate
Speaker 1: to see anybody lose their job, but where it is,
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if you hear about big layoffs at CNN.
Speaker 1: The creator of the Silk Road has been released from
Speaker 1: prison after being in jail for eleven years. He was
Speaker 1: pardoned by Donald Trump this week. He's not a January
Speaker 1: six er. Don't confuse it with that silk Road was
Speaker 1: the dark web drug place website. Oh yeah, that morphed
Speaker 1: into You literally could buy anything there. You could buy
Speaker 1: a hit man, you could do anything. Ross Albricht is
Speaker 1: the guy behind the Silk Road and we talked about
Speaker 1: this story years ago when he was arrested in the
Speaker 1: science fiction section of a public library in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: caught with his laptop running silk Road, the world's first
Speaker 1: dark web drug market that he created and ran under
Speaker 1: the pseudonym dread Pirate Roberts. He had been sentenced to
Speaker 1: life in prison, and after being in jail for more
Speaker 1: than a decade, Albrick will walk free. And basically this
Speaker 1: guy is looked at as a hero in the crypto
Speaker 1: ward because that is how you bought and traded services
Speaker 1: on the Silk Roads with bitcoin. Way back before anybody
Speaker 1: was really doing this. He's also a big hero to
Speaker 1: the libertarian movement, and there's been an ongoing campaign for
Speaker 1: years to set this guy free. That he was overcharged,
Speaker 1: and never mind the people who died from all the
Speaker 1: illicit drugs they bought. But you know you're going to
Speaker 1: land on that where you land on it. Do you
Speaker 1: think that maybe he was pardoned so that he part
Speaker 1: of the stipulation is you'll go work for the government
Speaker 1: with some of your bitcoin knowledge. Could be I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, clearly he has that type
Speaker 1: of mind. And a lot of times the government does
Speaker 1: hire people to reverse, you know, investigate stuff that they're
Speaker 1: trying to put into so you never know, it could
Speaker 1: work out something like that. But life in prison, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean a little penalty. And then we got this
Speaker 1: as a new wildfire rages in Los Angeles. One of
Speaker 1: the good things that will come out eventually in this
Speaker 1: is when they go to try to rebuild what they
Speaker 1: can rebuild. Obviously not everyone's going to be able to
Speaker 1: do that. It's gonna come with a whole new set
Speaker 1: of technology in fire resistant construction. Yeah, So that's that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's a field to look at right now,
Speaker 1: which really out of tragedy sometimes comes something good and
Speaker 1: building towards the future. Perhaps, you know, as more and
Speaker 1: more new construction goes up, you hopefully you would hope
Speaker 1: that these wildfires in the mass devastation becomes something. You're
Speaker 1: still gonna have fires and stuff, but hopefully not as
Speaker 1: destructive as what this has done to thousands of people.
Speaker 1: Don't you remember this is one of the ones that
Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy theory wrapped into that where they go,
Speaker 1: they set these on purpose so they can cash in
Speaker 1: off these fire retarded homes and the regardant homes, and
Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy tied to everything if you look hard enough.
Speaker 1: I know I still you know, if I have unlimited money,
Speaker 1: I would make the world's most energy efficient home out
Speaker 1: of whatever they make. YETI coolers out of your electric
Speaker 1: bill be like eight bucks a month. Linden Taco on
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